Meet Jules

Jules (she/her) shares the struggles of being a trans person trying to find stable employment. "It can be very difficult to get a job as a trans person, as lots of people won’t take you seriously. I have a part-time job, and even with half a year of saving, I had barely enough to cover maybe a session of electrolysis. I was discouraged but continued to try to save while I applied for this grant. Receiving this grant has taken so much stress off of me, financially, mentally, and otherwise."

Jules loves the vastness of the world and its beauty, creatures, and endless opportunities for learning. "I love to learn and explore, I’ve always found myself to be a very curious person," she says. Music has been a significant part of her life, helping her through difficult times and boosting her during the good ones. She loves to create in any way she can, including music, jewelry, clothing, drawing, and origami. Video games also expand her mind, patience, and spatial reasoning.

"Receiving this gender-affirming care will help me eliminate one of the biggest factors in the dysphoria I experience daily," Jules explains. "It will help me keep from shying away when I look in the mirror and make me feel even more real as a person navigating the world. I’ll finally be able to stop worrying about scheduling shaving my face so that I don’t get that 5 o’clock shadow by the end of a date. It’ll stop me from worrying about spacing out my shaving so I don’t irritate my sensitive skin and end up with razor burn all over that I have to work to cover up. It will allow me a new sense of peace."